Neighborhood News
The planning commission for the city of San Diego last week voted unanimously to hold off on adopting a state housing law that would add a lot more homes around San Diego for people of …
On May 17, the El Cajon Police Department informed their 21,000-plus Instagram followers of the trending "Gift Card Scam" happening at big box stores around the country — including San Diego County. According to the …
After years of delays, Normal Street's pedestrian promenade, which began as a grassroots effort in Hillcrest in 2015, is moving forward. What was the holdup? A driveway. Hillcrest Village Square Partners, who have owned the …
On May 18, a Zero electric scooter caught fire at an apartment complex in Normal Heights. The Thursday night fire by the hillside overlooking Mission Valley and just west of the 805 was the fifth …
El Cajon planning commissioners last week voted 4-0 to revoke the "deemed approved" status of a motel where adults had rented rooms for minors, and a teen was found shot in the head. The motel …
Since the March 11 end of Title 42, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their process is worked on, migrants crossed the first wall of the two existing border walls. Small groups …
A recent verbal altercation at a local Lucha Libre-inspired restaurant in Mission Hills was actual and not a professional wrestling skit, as many onlookers thought. "Ma'am, give me my receipt, you fu--ing bit-h .... "You …
Housing-starved students in University City say they're fighting for elbow room with older, more established residents. "They're calling us transient - the new word is migratory now," said Aidan Lin at a city workshop last …
A proposal to put a modern sculpture by an acclaimed artist outside the Del Mar Civic Center nearly died last week before the public could even weigh in. "I'd rather just rip the bandaid off …
One month has passed since a landslide took place in El Mataderom, the cliff where the road to Playas de Tijuana was built on. The original project to connect Playas with the downtown Tijuana was …
They're a step closer to landing on a sidewalk downtown, but not an inch closer to universal love: dozens of eight-foot-tall digital kiosks that threaten to end the city's historic ban on new outdoor advertising. …
On April 22 and 23, the El Cajon Facebook page challenged those living there to hop onto their "My El Cajon" app and "mark every pothole you can find within our city limits and have …
On April 9 La Sierra Residential, a two-building condo complex located on Cuatemoc Sur Boulevard, one of the busiest roads that lead traffic in and out of Tijuana's downtown, collapsed. The last several days the …
In January, floodwaters swept away the tents, blankets and clothing of the homeless living along the San Diego River bed from Ocean Beach to Lakeside. Now some say the city is trying to sweep the …
Several dozen community members gathered in front of 4350 Cleveland Avenue (at Meade) in University Heights on Saturday April 15, to protest the pending 49-unit, eight-story “affordable housing” building slated for construction on the quiet …
On April 14, between 6:30 pm and midnight, of the 717 drivers the Escondido Police Department pulled over at a checkpoint at East Valley Parkway and Beven Drive, police cited four drivers for driving with …